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...other words, the Army's new prestige is entirely unwarranted. Evidently, though, the sort of person who volunteers to join the military is not the sort of person who goes to the library to look up the military's record. As Tom Lehrer '47 noted in jest two decades ago, "Not only does the military prohibit discrimination the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on the grounds of ability...
...staff discussions were peaceable. There was, however, one brief moment of high tension. In jest, a White House adviser suggested that a secret Kremlin summit was in the works. Said he of a debate date: "Maybe we can do it on the day we get back from Moscow." After a bewildered second or two, the Democrats chuckled. Nervously...
Spoken in Jest...
...record comment about bombing the Soviet Union [PRESS, Aug. 27]. What I am excited about is the fact that Reporter Ann Devroy and the Gannett News Service went ahead and printed the remark, knowing the seriousness of their action and knowing it was made in jest...
...inane statements made by President Reagan over the past years, which have sent shivers down the spines of people in many countries, especially [in] Europe." Moscow's chief negotiator at the 40-nation disarmament talks in Geneva made a point of putting the President's jest on the official record to illustrate U.S. "hostility" to the Soviet Union. In Western Europe, the West German weekly Stern appeared on newsstands with a cover that depicted Reagan wearing a clown's red plastic nose. Underneath were the words: PRESIDENT REAGAN'S JOKE: TO BE LAUGHED TO DEATH...